\u2022 Isolation<\/strong> means that sound from one space or location will not impact any other spaces. Studios like the three new ones in my building must be designed and constructed to minimize “leakage” from the control room, isolation booths, main live room, drum booth, or machine room. While isolation is a very important concept in professional studios, it’s not as critical in consumer environments. Most homeowners or renters don’t have the resources or interest in building double walls, floating floors, or installing double glass, acoustic windows.<\/p>\n \u2022 Diffusion<\/strong> breaks up radiating acoustic energy by breaking up the sound in terms of timing, phase, direction, and intensity. This is done by placing acoustic “diffusers” in strategic places in the room. For example, my main studio has a solid maple floor in the center monitoring area. I built a large, ceiling mounted diffuser to break up any sound that might bounce or resonate from the floor. <\/p>\n Figure 1 – The view of the AIX main control room showing the diffuser located above the main mixing spot. <\/p>\n \u2022 Absorption<\/strong> deadens the reflectivity of a listening space. Professional studios are generally very “dead” sounding. Engineers want to avoid having the room place a large part in the ultimate sound that is being heard as they mix. Therefore, the walls are covered with fabric or sound absorptive panels. Acoustic energy hitting the walls doesn’t bounce back and distortion sounds coming directly from the monitor speakers.<\/p>\n We’ll take a closer look at these concepts and I’ll share some of the approaches we’ve used in the design and construction of the new rooms.<\/p>\n To Be Continued… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The construction of three new studios in the AIX building is almost complete. After over 6 months of work, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,16],"tags":[97,657,50,40,172,1032,70,640,1092,26,639,1043,980,1061,42,298,251,645,638,637,227,643,169,1101,1026,1027,150,347,27,116,1103,659],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dr_aixs_posts","category-techtalk","tag-5-1-surround","tag-advanced-resolution","tag-aix-records","tag-analog-vs-digital","tag-audio-resolution","tag-dvd_audio","tag-hd-downloads","tag-hd-music","tag-hd-vinyl","tag-hd-audio","tag-hi-res-audio","tag-hi-res","tag-hi-res-music","tag-hi-res-sound","tag-high-resolution-audio","tag-high-res-music","tag-high-resolution","tag-high-resolution-audio-experience","tag-hires-audio","tag-hires-music","tag-hra","tag-hra-listening-experience","tag-mark-waldrep","tag-master-class","tag-music-and-audio","tag-music-and-audio-a-user-guide-to-better-sound","tag-pcm","tag-spectragram","tag-spectragraphs","tag-surround-music","tag-t-h-e-show-newport-beach2016","tag-uhd-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"160625_acoustics_diffuser_AIX\"](\"http:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160625_acoustics_diffuser_AIX.jpg\")
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